Birmingham Gateway - a new start for New Street
The £600m Birmingham Gateway project will see the 1960s-built New Street station transformed into a bright, modern, 21st century focal point for Birmingham.
Backed by Network Rail, Birmingham City Council, Advantage West Midlands, Centro and the Department for Transport, the Gateway project will complete in 2015 with first passenger benefits expected in 2012.
The world-class station will boast highlights
such as:
- Room for even more passengers to use the station in comfort
- More accessible, brighter and clearer platforms reached by new escalators and new public lifts.
- A grand concourse three and a half times bigger than at present, enclosed by a spectacular, giant, light-filled atrium
- An iconic new station façade, building on Birmingham’s growing tradition of leading-edge design
- Better links to and through the station for pedestrians, with eight entrances.
- The stimulus for the physical regeneration of the areas surrounding the station leading to the potential creation of over 10,000 new jobs across the city
For more information visit the website at www.newstreetnewstart.co.uk